This is how an extending empire looks like:
- America has been at war 93% of the time - 229 out of 246 years - since 1776;[1]
- The U.S. launched 201 out of the 248 armed conflicts since the end of WWII;[2]
- The United States has active duty military troops stationed in nearly 150 countries;[3]
- The United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad.[4]
Let’s assume that the State is not involved in organizing illegal activities. Surely those who control the world organized crime are or work for very rich individuals. This explains why illegal profits are not used to purchase legal businesses. Those who control organized crime hold/control a significant part of the global economy. They already have economic power and the purchase of legal businesses would not be meaningful.
Given that people who got very rich from illegal businesses are not known, it means that profits are distributed to a very large number of individuals. In the past, vassal states would pay tribute to sovereign states. Let’s imagine the other way around: the empire pays individuals from the vassal states, who become "salaried employees" of the empire. The more money an individual from vassal states/colonies has, the more likely he is to spend it on luxury goods (made in the West), children’s education (sent to study in the West), trips, medical treatment (with the most advanced countries being in the West). Nationally, the money is spent on goods and services in an economy dominated by large Western corporations. Eventually, the money funneled through a wide network returns in the Western economy and, in addition, the empire keeps its control/influence over the vassal states. Considering there are approximately 10,000 "salaried employees" in every country, that they are paid USD 100,000 every year and there are 100 countries, such a network would cost USD 100 billion every year - a small fraction of the illegal profits. Even though such a network would exist, we could still not explain how more than USD 1,000 billion is spent on an annual basis. Consequently, the State is involved in spending the illegal profits.
Just like in the past, when the British empire would use drug money to administer and expand the empire, the American empire is using it for the same purpose. To administer the nation, the State needs very large amounts of money collected from duties and fees. We may conclude that, for the administration of an empire, the State needs substantial amounts that cannot be hidden in the national budget. According to the international laws, the existence of an empire is illegal. The State needs illegal money, the source of which should be unknown, in order to finance their illegal empire. It is not only the profits that are obtained illegally, but spending the money for illegal purposes is equally important.
The spending of illegal profits for the control of the empire:
- stay-behind networks.[5] Under the pretext of a possible Soviet invasion, NATO has organized secret armed forces in Western Europe that should have operated in the occupied territories. While the Soviet invasion did not happen, they were used to organize terrorist attacks blamed on the communists.
- informational control, propaganda of the capitalist system and of "democracy".
Empire expansion:
- coup d'état;[6]
- wars.
An empire based on force needs military superiority. The remaining profits are spent on research, particularly military research.[7]
The Dark Reality
If the State controls organized crime, then:
- intelligence services are involved;
- police are involved. It is police duty to catch criminals;
- justice is involved. It is justice duty to apply the law for all citizens;
- government is involved (by spending illegal profits);
- mass-media are involved. It is their duty to discover whether or not the government complies with the laws and the organized crime must be investigated and not ignored.
- a part of the banking system is most likely to be involved, because of the substantial amounts of money used.
What we know about society/State is an illusion. Separation of powers does not exist, justice is not applied to everyone.
Democracy does not exist because:
- an unseen part of the State remains unchanged regardless of the result of the elections;
- the citizens did not vote so that their elects organize illegal businesses;
- if America were a democracy, it would respect the global will that has been in favor of the cease of the embargo on Cuba for decades.[8] If there is no democracy at the global level, there is none at the national level. The same person, for instance the President, cannot be a tyrant in the morning, ignoring the global will, including the will of the American people, when handling a foreign issue, and a fan of democracy at lunch, when handling a domestic issue.
- a capitalist society with a high index of inequality cannot be a democracy. Capitalism is the society of capital holders, democracy is the society of the majority (without capital), of the people.
Western values become the values of the world organized crime, only a pretext for the West to appropriate the resources of other nations.
While organized crime is an intentional evil, we may wonder what other evils are also intentional. War and poverty are intentional evils. We know that the 2003 war against Iraq was a lie.[9] Iraq does not have mass destruction weapons. Poverty is strongly connected to war. The poor who live in violence are necessary, so that joining the army looks like a better life. The poor are those who fight in wars, the rich rarely do. The US is by far the richest nation and still has tens of millions of underprivileged. We may infer that, regardless of how rich a nation is, there will always be the poor in capitalism.
The Dark Future
The first economy of the world (PPP) is China.[10] What happened in the past will happen again. The British empire did not only intervene militarily to continue the drug trafficking, but it also negatively affected the Chinese economy, the first economy of the world at that time.[11] Because military power depends on the state of the economy in the long term, China will have the strongest army. Wanting to continue its military and economic domination of the world, America will want to destroy the Chinese economy.[12] In the best-case scenario, where a global war will not be started and nuclear weapons will not be used, there will be a local war. The only country with a population comparable to China is India. A war between India and China,[13] in addition to the millions or tens of millions of victims, would destroy both economies and more than 2 billion people would end up below the poverty line. All this human tragedy so that an empire, of organized crime, maintains world domination.
Signs that a war against China is prepared:
- Chinese President Xi Jinping gives army its first order of 2019: be ready for battle;[14]
- Both China and the US are re-arming, openly preparing for a potential future conflict in the Asia-Pacific;[15]
- US could be at war with China in just 15 yrs, warns ex-US army chief in Europe;[16]
- Pompeo names ‘the central threat of our times’ and guess what it is... It’s the Chinese Communist Party;[17]
- America’s pivot to Asia;
- trade wars between the two countries.
Notes:
1. https://washingtonsblog.com/how-many-years-has-the-u-s-been-at-war/
- The U.S. launched 201 out of the 248 armed conflicts since the end of WWII;[2]
- The United States has active duty military troops stationed in nearly 150 countries;[3]
- The United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad.[4]
Let’s assume that the State is not involved in organizing illegal activities. Surely those who control the world organized crime are or work for very rich individuals. This explains why illegal profits are not used to purchase legal businesses. Those who control organized crime hold/control a significant part of the global economy. They already have economic power and the purchase of legal businesses would not be meaningful.
Given that people who got very rich from illegal businesses are not known, it means that profits are distributed to a very large number of individuals. In the past, vassal states would pay tribute to sovereign states. Let’s imagine the other way around: the empire pays individuals from the vassal states, who become "salaried employees" of the empire. The more money an individual from vassal states/colonies has, the more likely he is to spend it on luxury goods (made in the West), children’s education (sent to study in the West), trips, medical treatment (with the most advanced countries being in the West). Nationally, the money is spent on goods and services in an economy dominated by large Western corporations. Eventually, the money funneled through a wide network returns in the Western economy and, in addition, the empire keeps its control/influence over the vassal states. Considering there are approximately 10,000 "salaried employees" in every country, that they are paid USD 100,000 every year and there are 100 countries, such a network would cost USD 100 billion every year - a small fraction of the illegal profits. Even though such a network would exist, we could still not explain how more than USD 1,000 billion is spent on an annual basis. Consequently, the State is involved in spending the illegal profits.
Just like in the past, when the British empire would use drug money to administer and expand the empire, the American empire is using it for the same purpose. To administer the nation, the State needs very large amounts of money collected from duties and fees. We may conclude that, for the administration of an empire, the State needs substantial amounts that cannot be hidden in the national budget. According to the international laws, the existence of an empire is illegal. The State needs illegal money, the source of which should be unknown, in order to finance their illegal empire. It is not only the profits that are obtained illegally, but spending the money for illegal purposes is equally important.
The spending of illegal profits for the control of the empire:
- stay-behind networks.[5] Under the pretext of a possible Soviet invasion, NATO has organized secret armed forces in Western Europe that should have operated in the occupied territories. While the Soviet invasion did not happen, they were used to organize terrorist attacks blamed on the communists.
- informational control, propaganda of the capitalist system and of "democracy".
Empire expansion:
- coup d'état;[6]
- wars.
An empire based on force needs military superiority. The remaining profits are spent on research, particularly military research.[7]
The Dark Reality
If the State controls organized crime, then:
- intelligence services are involved;
- police are involved. It is police duty to catch criminals;
- justice is involved. It is justice duty to apply the law for all citizens;
- government is involved (by spending illegal profits);
- mass-media are involved. It is their duty to discover whether or not the government complies with the laws and the organized crime must be investigated and not ignored.
- a part of the banking system is most likely to be involved, because of the substantial amounts of money used.
What we know about society/State is an illusion. Separation of powers does not exist, justice is not applied to everyone.
Democracy does not exist because:
- an unseen part of the State remains unchanged regardless of the result of the elections;
- the citizens did not vote so that their elects organize illegal businesses;
- if America were a democracy, it would respect the global will that has been in favor of the cease of the embargo on Cuba for decades.[8] If there is no democracy at the global level, there is none at the national level. The same person, for instance the President, cannot be a tyrant in the morning, ignoring the global will, including the will of the American people, when handling a foreign issue, and a fan of democracy at lunch, when handling a domestic issue.
- a capitalist society with a high index of inequality cannot be a democracy. Capitalism is the society of capital holders, democracy is the society of the majority (without capital), of the people.
Western values become the values of the world organized crime, only a pretext for the West to appropriate the resources of other nations.
While organized crime is an intentional evil, we may wonder what other evils are also intentional. War and poverty are intentional evils. We know that the 2003 war against Iraq was a lie.[9] Iraq does not have mass destruction weapons. Poverty is strongly connected to war. The poor who live in violence are necessary, so that joining the army looks like a better life. The poor are those who fight in wars, the rich rarely do. The US is by far the richest nation and still has tens of millions of underprivileged. We may infer that, regardless of how rich a nation is, there will always be the poor in capitalism.
The Dark Future
The first economy of the world (PPP) is China.[10] What happened in the past will happen again. The British empire did not only intervene militarily to continue the drug trafficking, but it also negatively affected the Chinese economy, the first economy of the world at that time.[11] Because military power depends on the state of the economy in the long term, China will have the strongest army. Wanting to continue its military and economic domination of the world, America will want to destroy the Chinese economy.[12] In the best-case scenario, where a global war will not be started and nuclear weapons will not be used, there will be a local war. The only country with a population comparable to China is India. A war between India and China,[13] in addition to the millions or tens of millions of victims, would destroy both economies and more than 2 billion people would end up below the poverty line. All this human tragedy so that an empire, of organized crime, maintains world domination.
Signs that a war against China is prepared:
- Chinese President Xi Jinping gives army its first order of 2019: be ready for battle;[14]
- Both China and the US are re-arming, openly preparing for a potential future conflict in the Asia-Pacific;[15]
- US could be at war with China in just 15 yrs, warns ex-US army chief in Europe;[16]
- Pompeo names ‘the central threat of our times’ and guess what it is... It’s the Chinese Communist Party;[17]
- America’s pivot to Asia;
- trade wars between the two countries.
Notes:
1. https://washingtonsblog.com/how-many-years-has-the-u-s-been-at-war/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062030/
Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world.
The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001
3. http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/04/us/table.military.troops/
4. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321
5. Ganser, Daniele - NATO's Secret Armies, Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
6. William Blum - Killing Hope - US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
7. "...are ready to ditch the basics of global dominion: the relentless scientific research that has long been the cutting edge of U.S. military supremacy."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176373/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_tweeting_while_rome_burns
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba
9. After the invasion, no substantial evidence was found to verify the initial claims about WMDs, while claims of Iraqi officials collaborating with al-Qaeda were proven false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
11. Within a decade after the end of the Second Opium War, China's share of global GDP had fallen by half.
China was the largest economy in the world for many centuries until the Opium Wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
12. https://www.quora.com/What-is-Thucydides%E2%80%99s-Trap
13. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481124-india-armed-forces-china/
15. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52008453
16. https://www.rt.com/news/442239-china-war-us-hodges/
17. https://www.rt.com/news/479603-pompeo-china-central-threat/
